PROOF THAT EARTH WOBBLES
TESTIMONY FROM THE ANCIENT GREEK ASTRONOMERS
When the astronomers of ancient Greece grouped the stars and found names for them they listed constellations that can no longer be seen from Greece. In this way they supplied. Sir James Jeans, the British astronomer, with a proof of a scientfic fact discovered long years after they departed this terrestrial planet. Among the constellations named by the men of Greece 2500 years ago are some Which, although visible then, camiot be seen in Greece to-day because they never rise above the horizon.
The wobble, as it is called, is a movement of the spinning earth in which its axis makes a small circle once in every 26,000 years; in other words, each pole describes a circular path in the heavens at the speed of about a foot a year. This slow movement is caused'by the pull of the sun and moon oh the bulging equatorial part of our globe.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 July 1935, Page 12
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